Karl-Markus Gauß. Yevropeyska abetka. (The European Alphabet)

"In "The European Alphabet," the author ironically turns over 30 concepts from side to side, until they disclose their latent meaning – this is a true textbook for skeptical Europeans. An invitation to travel in the continent that is more unexplored and more controversial than those who keep lecturing about it suspect."Translated from German by Yurko ProkhaskoIn Ukrainian.Type of the edition: soft coverFormat: 130x200 mmNumber of pages: 192Publisher: Knyhy-XXI, ChernivtsiContents:

The January of 1918 turned out to be really cold. Sons of an UPR counterintelligence general Andriy and Oleksa find themselves among defenders of Kruty railway station; in contrast to Muravyov’s trained army, only grass-green students and cadets stay there. There are rumors that among the Ukrainian units there is an agent of the Bolsheviks..

For the first time, one book has comprised collected stories about the struggle of UMO and OUN in the period between the wars, the resistance movement during World War II and for one and a half decades after it was over, the phenomena created by nationalists in Nazi camps and the Soviet GULAG, the activities in exile and in the "small zone".

This book is a kind of reportage from Stalin camps. Barbara Skarga underwent all stages of the Soviet "discipline": prison, labor camps, and exile. The author very vividly reproduces details and plots from inmates' life, her thoughts and feelings of that time..

Czapski is an outstanding Polish artist and writer, a member of staff of "Kultura" magazine edited by Giedroyc. ..Czapski's important assignment was to search for the more than 10,000 Polish officers missing – then it turned out they were shot by the Soviets in Katyn.

Svetislav Basara engages with a detective story, suggests his own vision of History, but he truly captivates with witty tricks. Imagine Jesus who enters Jerusalem on a bike, or Sherlock Holmes suffering fiasco in a case of two-wheelers..

Every family has its stories that are invariably narrated from one generation to another. Other stories remain out of frame. "People in Nests" is a kind of a mixture of the former and the latter spiced with light humor, parody, and deconstruction. Similar to how, ultimately, almost the entire historic memory in our part of the world is deconstructed..

"The Swan Constellation" is a "family portrait in the interior" of a Ukrainian gentry family on the eve of the First World War – exclusive for our literature. The story "Aeneas and Lives of Others" is focused on the topic of the Ukrainian national liberation struggle in the apocalypse of the Second World War..

..Skoropadsky was daring enough to undertake the ungrateful burden of nation-building. The attempt ended in complete and expected failure, but some initiatives by the hetman have survived to the present day. These piercing memoirs recreate the turbulent years of the revolution and the civil war, as well as Skoropadsky's personal drama...

Realities of the war are blood and dirt, screams and death, unworthiness and courage, survival on the brink of human capacity. After the end of the war, Paul and his front-line comrades do not fit into the life in peaceful cities. They are "the lost generation", suddenly mature adolescent...

The new piece by Serhiy Plokhy is based on archival materials and court records. It speaks about one of the most famous KGB agents, the murderer of Stepan Bandera and Lev Rebet – Bohdan Stashynsky. The day when the OUN leader was killed and the post-incident investigation are described in detail and exhaustively. The author suggests a new look at Stashynsky's fate...

These are not stories about the past events we know about from textbooks. Here we are talking about what could be called the focal moments of history, where one minute reflects the life of an entire generation. The (non-)historical moments are snatched from the last century of the Ukrainian history...

The first novel in the American literature that represented Ukraine through the history of a Ukrainian family. It hit two powerful trends at once – the literature of ethnic minorities and the return to traditional values..

Oles Ilchenko is one of the few authors of Kyiv whose family history in the last century is closely intertwined with the history of the city. Famous characters and addresses, real-life events, recognizable details, and a selection of archival photos – that's everything that one needs for an exciting tour of the recent past.

Every next page offers the reader discovery of bright, original worlds with their unique stories. And with them – an unexpected perspective of Chernivtsi. The author does not just narrate – he talks, communicates with the interlocutor/reader, enthusiastically sharing the stories that arose from the city air.

..the first book where the writer dispels the Austrian "sugar" myth. His imaginary journey passes through Eastern Galicia – the landscapes where oil tycoons and miracle working rabbis grotesquely coexist with poor Jewish shtetls, where people barely survive in the corrupt region, where a multilingual cultural mosaic is being created simultaneously and fine literature is being written.

Nine-year-old Bruno and his family move from their comfortable home in Berlin to a new home in the mysterious place of Out-With, where his father is appointed commandant of a concentration camp. Eventually he meets a Jewish boy, Shmuel, a young prisoner. They develop true friendship..

Written in a "strange mixture of jargon, governmental reports, the vocabulary of streets and party meetings," this parody at an autobiography is one of the most truthful literary reflections of the most deceitful era in the history of Eastern Europe, and the most famous book by the author, which still continues attracting numerous fans worldwide.

This is about a typical Jewish journey on the brink of life and death – in the time of World War II. However, this typical nature is eerie. The author offers virtually no judgment of the characters – the mill wheel of the still quite recent history does it for her. Spin after spin, page after page...

The text without cuts or changes, the first academic publication, the researcher's comments, details about the writing history. "Kholodny Yar" is memories of a fighter, which are easy to read, like an adventure novel, and useful as a rich source of facts about an obscure page of our history: the insurgency movement under the flag of the Ukrainian People's Republic.

The novel is based on the actual events of 1941-1945. When the terrible war came to the noisy Lviv, where Armenians lived alongside Poles, Ukrainians alongside Jews, little Mira's family miraculously managed to escape from the ghetto. Her mother, sister, and she were freed by a farmer, whose dead daughter she surprisingly resembled..

The New York Times bestseller. Fifteen-year-old Lina Vilkas lives in a happy family, in a quiet European town, she is going to become an artist and anticipates joyful changes in her life. But her fate decides otherwise – and now her native Lithuania, her cozy Kaunas are annexed by the Soviet Union, and Lina and her family find themselves in a dirty troop train for deportees..

The scale of World War I shocked the world and destroyed the old European ways of life. Against the background of large and small battles, military operations, not only their direct participants but also civilians were affected by the burden of the war, they became hostage to the military events. Austrian Chernivtsi found itself under Russian occupation three times..

The collection of essays by Martin Pollack is dedicated to the culture of memory – of hundreds of thousands of nameless victims of the 20th century bloodiest regimes or of routine hatred, whose graves are hidden in anonymity, camouflaged with picturesque landscapes, or just planted over with vegetable...

The invasion of the Soviet army in 1956 (suppression of the Hungarian uprising) turned almost 200,000 Hungarians into refugees. The protagonist of the book, a young teacher, while rescuing schoolgirls takes them across the mountains to the secure Austria, where later she tries to start a new life. But what she experienced does not let go so easy..

..when the war starts in the Balkans, what can they do for those who stay in the divided country? This autobiographical story is narrated by a daughter of immigrants, with all the passion of youth rebellion against the very existence of the choice between assimilation and preservation of the identity.

When the Red Army invaded Slovakia, Zuzana was mourning for her loved one, a Russian guerilla soldier Alexei, who died in the hands of the Nazi invaders. Suddenly – an arrest, accusations of treason, and she already finds herself in a crowded train that carries to the logging camps of the Gulag disenfranchised slaves of "the state of victorious socialism"..

..a young director, a favorite of the metropolitan public accidentally comes across a story that may become his greatest success – or the most fatal defeat. The fate of a girl, who in a village occupied by the Nazi army falls in love with an occupier soldier, and her family makes him recall his own tragedy..

Chornomorets – the legendary UPA warrior, whose life is shrouded in mystery. Brave and persistent, he repeatedly managed to escape from traps of the NKVD! Also in this edition, read the sequel of the novel: "Zastupnytsya" (The Guardian).

Descendants of two families of farmer... The routine ordered in detail in centuries and generation... But the storms of the twentieth century will mercilessly uproot them. The love of freedom of their ancestors, Cossacks, the Haidamak tradition of Kholodny Yar, the death from starvation in the 1930th will give birth to them – the new generation of Ukrainian.

The artistic and documentary novel by Belarus writer Svetlana Alexievich, 2015 Nobel Prize laureate, speaks in "little people"'s voices about the catastrophe that destroyed millions of lives, overturned the outlook of an entire generation, and at the same time removed the Iron Curtain and undermined the construction of the soviet state.

The verge of the 19th and the 20th centuries: the flow of many thousands of labor migrants and immigrants willing to pursue the American dream goes from Galicia across the ocean. They are transferred to the country of opportunities by numerous agents, traffickers, hardballs, and organized criminal...

Talented writer, poet, and brave warrior Yuri Budyak (Pokos) is an extraordinary person. It seems that events of his turbulent destiny would be enough for more than one life. The Anglo-Boer War, the First World War, the revolution, collapse of the Russian Empire, establishment of the UPR, repressions, Stalin's camps, the Second World War...

Czechoslovakia, a provincial town, the 1970's. The age of the so-called "normalization", as the contemporary communist regime officially referred to the Soviet occupation of 1968-89. The narrator – eight-year old Helenka, a lonely child with developed imagination – is learning to survive in the cruel and brutal world around her without losing herself..

This lyrical novel by the classic of the Serbian literature of the 20th century Milos Crnjanski is one of the best examples of the European expressionism. Evidence of the narrator – a Serb who in the uniform of an Austro-Hungarian officer took part in the First World War – conveys to the reader the authentic and absurd atmosphere of the hard time..

Is it necessary to once again explain to the modern Ukrainian reader who Batko Makhno was? It is. Because, as proven by the author of "The Steppe Pirate", Warsaw Ukrainian studies and cultural studies researcher Stanislav Lubienski, even in the small motherland of Nestor Ivanovych the answer to this question is not that obvious for everyone...

The twentieth century was the time when the face of the modern Ukraine was being formed. The book is dedicated to events and personalities of the Ukrainian history in this controversial period. Based on archival documents, the book's authors highlight interesting and little known facts about outstanding events of the past and prominent personalitie...

Polina Zherebtsova was born in Grozny and lived there for 20 years. She experienced three wars. When the first Chechen war started, Polina was only nine. For the ten long years, from 1994 till 2004, she kept a diary recording everything in it...

The eerie power of prose by Borowski is due to that with some otherworldly – beyond the good and evil – stylistic indifference he reveals to us the everyday life of the camp complex of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The camp world was a complex social system with its hierarchy and corruption, with intrigues and jealousy, with love and betrayal...

The conversation between journalist Mustafa Nayem and Yuriy Lutsenko was held during July 2013, almost immediately after the politician's release from prison. Lutsenko is a brilliant storyteller. His tenacious memory retains minute details of conversations and observations. It has everything – starting from blunt jokes to the most delicate revelation...

The publication is intended for readers interested in the controversial view of the Ukrainian history, politics, and culture. The book "Maidan" is a kaleidoscope combining candid and critical perspectives of the Ukrainian Revolution of 2013-2014, emotions without cuts, and the details that were left off media screens.

The book speaks of the participation of Austria in World War II and Nazi crimes. From the private perspective of a descendant – the son of a famous Nazi who, already grown up, decides to try and understand not only the circumstances of his father's death, but also those of his life – the author exposes the myth of the Anschluss of Austria to the Third Reich...

The exciting memoir by Stepan Smal-Stotsky about his native village Nemoliv is a bright milestone in the Ukrainian tradition of memoirs highlighting the boundless and charming space of the Ukrainian village in the late 19th century. With much love and warmth, the book recreates the atmosphere in which the future scientist was raised...

This is the third book by the famous Finnish journalist and writer Anna-Lena Lauren published in Ukrainian. While her previous two books reflected current realities of life in Russia and in the Caucasian republics, from this book the Ukrainian reader can learn more about the author's interested perspective of Ukraine as well.

The memoirs by the famous Ukrainian female historian Natalia Polonska-Vasilenko had an amazing destiny: the typescript of the memories elaborated by the author got lost so that she could not recover it herself. Meanwhile, due to a happy occasion, on a paper dump in Munich the earliest section of the memories, the period before the revolution, was discovered...

In the spring of 1940, Zygmunt Bartnytsky disappears in Aydar plains in the Eastern Ukraine. At the same time, communication was lost with dozens of thousands of other people as well. Where and how did 25,421 persons got lost – for 50 years in the USSR it was state secret No.1. This is the first book that describes the pages of the Ukrainian Katyn in such detail.

...the family and personal history of Father Patrick Debua unfold against the background of memories of Ukrainian peasants about the mass massacres of Jews during the years of the German occupation, and thus they become a part of the common web of the cultural, national and universal humanity memory of the Holocaust.

Manuscripts by Dmytro Hoychenko are unique testimonies of the terrible times of Soviet collectivization and the Great Famine in Ukraine. In contrast to fiction works by Barka or Bahryany, historical memoirs have virtually not preserved so detailed descriptions of the misanthropic communist regime as in this book.

In this book, the reader will find a multi-dimensional picture of Kolyma camps and, partially, Siberian ones in the early post-war period. Its author is an educated Austrian, who accidentally found himself in the boiling pot of GULAG. Not suffering loss of Soviet ideals, Vernon Kress feels as a chronicler, an unbiased witness there...